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...very different from, for example The New, New Thing. Small details matter, whereas no one is too concerned what technology wizard Jim Clark had for lunch every day (Lombardi had a daily hamburger) or where Mankind happened to grow up. The focus is the individual, and while that focus often includes the larger scope of the endeavors that individual is involved in, these biographies never lose sight of the fact that they are describing a person, and not an event or a phenomenon...
...biographer obtains his or her information of the subject often determines what sort of biography will emerge and who will want to read it. A fortunate biographer will have the cooperation of his or her subject, access to all relevant primary documentation and numerous secondary sources. Certain kinds of biographies can be written using only one of these three sources. The biography of an athletic or entertainment superstar can be based solely on interviews with the subject, while biographies of historical figures are obviously limited to the documented sources that remain. Often a coherent biography can be drawn from primary...
...mysterious subject, "a painter of whom nothing is known." These figures are always attractive to biographers, who feel that they get to reveal the figure behind the curtain. Balthus was an enigmatic contemporary artist most noted for his highly sexualized portraits of young girls. His paintings, which often featured sadomasochistic imagery, were deemed so scandalous during their debut in 1934 that one was removed from its public display in Paris...
...These remote causes often involve a sense of feeling emotionally neglected or abused or mistreated in childhood and/or in current life, in ways that may still be unconscious to the student," Ducey adds...
...time of Thanksgiving, when students often face the sometimes less-than-desirable prospect of going home for the holidays, the phenomena of burnout begin to become manifest," Ducey says. "The weeks between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays are often the most critical period for students' recognition that their fall semester feels dangerously out of control...